Attention and learning
Why a student is struggling despite the effort.
Academic difficulty has many possible causes, and effort is rarely the missing ingredient. An evaluation examines the cognitive skills that learning depends on.
Why an evaluation
The question this answers
Learning and academic challenges arise for many reasons, and it is often not clear why a student is struggling despite real effort and support at home and at school.
A neuropsychological evaluation provides a comprehensive, objective assessment of the cognitive skills that underpin learning, in order to identify what is actually behind the difficulty.
That includes determining whether a specific learning disorder — such as dyslexia, dysgraphia, or dyscalculia — accounts for the pattern, or whether attention difficulties, anxiety, or developmental differences are contributing.
What testing examines
Cognitive skills and academic skills, together
Carefully standardized testing covers both the underlying cognitive abilities and the academic skills that depend on them, so that a reading or mathematics difficulty can be understood in terms of the processes producing it.
- Attention and concentration
- Memory and new learning
- Language and phonological processing
- Processing speed
- Executive functioning
- Academic skills: reading, writing, and mathematics
Who it is for
Who is referred
Students from age seven upwards, referred by pediatricians, primary care physicians, and families, frequently after school-based support has been tried and the picture is still unclear.
Ages seen by the practice: Children (age 7 and above), adolescents, adults, and geriatrics.
What you receive
What the evaluation gives you
A written report setting out the student's cognitive profile and what it means for how they learn, with recommendations for individualized learning strategies, classroom accommodations, and targeted educational supports.
The report describes strengths as well as areas of difficulty. Knowing how a student learns best is what allows families, educators, and the student to build a plan together — one aimed at confidence and progress rather than at compensating indefinitely.
Neuropsychological Associates provides assessment and consultation only. The practice does not provide counseling, psychotherapy, cognitive rehabilitation, neurologic consultation, or psychiatric assessment. Recommendations in the report are carried out by your own physicians and treating providers.
Arranging an evaluation
A letter of medical necessity or a physician's office note is required. Our office verifies your insurance benefits before anything is scheduled. Prefer to talk it through first? Call (631) 366-3369.